This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 473 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 473 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Man vs. man, Man vs. Nature, and Man vs. Society are all examples of which type of conflict? A) Internal. B) External. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) External. 2. Read the poem below:the drum by Nikki Giovannidaddy says the world isa drum tight and hardand i told himi'm gonna beat out my own rhythm What comparison does the poem make? A) She compares herself to a rhythm. B) The poem compares the world to a drum. C) The speaker compares her father to the world. D) The speaker compares her father to a drum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The poem compares the world to a drum. 3. Living dead, seriously funny, big baby, awfully lucky A) Onomatopoeia. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 4. A woman is going to break up with her boyfriend; meanwhile, he's buying her a diamond ring and planning his marriage proposal. A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony. 5. The stairs groaned as he walked on them. A) Juxtaposition. B) Pun. C) Anthropomorphism. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 6. Not literal A) Imagery. B) Figurative. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figurative. 7. The attitude a writer expresses toward the subject of their text A) Main idea. B) Tone. C) Theme. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 8. "The candy melted in her mouth and swirls of bittersweet chocolate and slightly sweet but salty caramel blended together on her tongue." A) Imagery using taste. B) Imagery using touch. C) Example of hyperbole. D) Example of metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery using taste. 9. This is a question asked without expecting an answer. A) Rhetorical question. B) Rhythmic question. C) Probing questions. D) Comprehension question. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical question. 10. Why did Goodwife Cruff believe that Kit was a witch? A) She was mean to all on board the ship. B) She knew how to swim. C) She had a wand. D) She sank in the water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She knew how to swim. 11. When readers know what will happen before the characters is? A) Dramatic irony. B) Situational irony. C) Verbal irony. D) Life irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dramatic irony. 12. As sharp as a A) Paper. B) Scholar. C) Kite. D) Knife. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Knife. 13. Identify the type of irony:The reader knew the stalker was in the bedroom closet. The girl went in to take a nap. A) Situational Irony. B) Verbal Irony. C) Dramatic Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic Irony. 14. When a person is telling a story about themselves, what point of view are they using? A) First Person. B) Third Person Limited. C) Second Person. D) Third Person Omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First Person. 15. Walking Dead A) Oxymoron. B) Epigraph. C) Anachronism. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 16. The car quickly slowed down.This is an example of ..... A) Oxymoron. B) Paradox. C) Irony. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 17. "Break a leg" is an example of a(n) A) Simile. B) Idiom. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 18. Narrator NOT a character in the story; sees into the mind of ONE character; "he, she, they, it" A) Third person omniscient. B) Third person limited omniscient. C) Third person dramatic/objective. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Third person limited omniscient. 19. Our team lost the game 56-14. Our team was a little frustrated by their loss. A) Hyperbole. B) Characterization. C) Understatement. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Understatement. 20. Which of the following is an example of direct characterization? A) He tapped his foot anxiously. B) "I wouldn't trust that man, " said Ma. C) Frank was a shy, quiet person. D) Every time he earned a high grade, he would hang the test on his wall. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frank was a shy, quiet person. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesLiterary Devices Quiz 1Literary Devices Quiz 2Literary Devices Quiz 3Literary Devices Quiz 4Literary Devices Quiz 5Literary Devices Quiz 6Literary Devices Quiz 7Literary Devices Quiz 8Literary Devices Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books